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A 10-year-old from Montpelier took the crown — and probably a few of the judges' olfactory glands — in the annual rotten sneaker contest, which lured eight other finalists to Vermont's capital city from across the country.
The results of a Southern California Edison customer satisfaction survey came under question when it was learned that employees had hacked into the data system and changed the phone numbers of those to be surveyed to those of friends and family.
A Houston woman gave birth to two sets of identical twins — something the couple said their doctor told them is only likely to happen in about 1 in 11 million pregnancies.
Money, jewelry, T-shirts, false teeth — residents flush some weird stuff down their toilets, according to workers at the local wastewater treatment plant.
A federal grand jury has indicted seven people for carrying out an international scheme that cheated 1,000 investors of $56 million, money the defendants used to buy race cars and a century-old castle
He spent four years as "DotComGuy," including a year holed up in a Dallas home living entirely off the Internet. Now he will go back to being just plain Mitch Maddox, legally changing his name back.
A politician who was convicted of buying votes was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison, but he will continue to hold his post from his cell.
Bryan County prosecutors charged Patricia Kay Michel with unlawful delivery of a controlled drug after she dialed a wrong number and allegedly discussed procuring drugs with her former probation officer.
Chinese veterinarians have begun showing American-born panda Hua Mei sex-education videos featuring pandas mating to prepare her for "blind dates" with Chinese suitors.
Thirty-three couples began a competition in Singapore to see who could live in a moving cable car for a week — enduring stifling humidity, motion sickness and only 10 minutes to use the toilet each day.
